“For political reasons, journalists of the left wanted to believe Pascoe was genuine and put up the blinkers to any contrary view. Now they must eat humble pie and admit they got it all wrong” - Michael Mansell, Chair, Aboriginal Land Council of Tasmania, 22 January 2020
“AncestryDNA® has updated its ethnicity estimate reference panel so customers will now have the ability to see a possible genetic connection with the Indigenous communities of Australia.” - March 31st 2020
Is Mr Pascoe a Screen-writer for the ‘Disneyfication’ of Aboriginal History ?“
Is Aboriginality defined by one’s Race, or one’s Land, Tjurrunga, and Kinship, or maybe it is just a Social Construct and Personal Choice? Mr Pascoe has certainly got us all thinking.
It is not the Australian community who are insisting that Mr Pascoe prove his Aboriginal ancestry – it is in fact, Mr Pascoe who is insisting that the Australian community accept his Aboriginal ancestry, so the burden of proof falls to the initiator, Mr Pascoe, to clear up any concerns regarding his alleged ancestry.
Permanently occupied stone houses and buildings on an island off the WA coast? Really?
Innocent transcription errors or wilful attempts to slant the narrative? Read our review and critique and you decide!
The sad, sad world of Stan Grant’s Politics
No truly agricultural society can be based on native grain species that grow abundantly in wet years, but will not grow in dry years. Settled, Aboriginal ‘farmer’ societies would not have survived Australia’s ruthless swings from droughts to floods.
Distinguished academic Professor Marcia Langton has warned against “scaring the living daylights” out of children when teaching the history of violence against indigenous people.
Fact checking of Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu, leaves the author open to a serious accusation of deliberately hiding evidence.
Were Dutch survivors of the Batavia wreck responsible for introducing yam agriculture to the Aborigines?
Innocent transcription errors or wilful attempts to slant the narrative? Read our review and critique and you decide!
For an uninitiated Aboriginal man, to have read a copy of the book Yiwara, would be sacrilege, punishable by spearing or death - for a non-Aboriginal historian, to ignore the evidence in Yiwara that the Aborigines were solely hunter-gatherers, and not ‘settled farmers’, would amount to a deliberate hiding of evidence. Mr Pascoe says he has read this book.
Is Mr Pascoe describing a real Aboriginal grain store or constructing a hypothetical, idealised one?
Another case of Cultural Appropriation? Torres Strait Islanders had agriculture, but Australian Aborigines did not.
A 1 metre Bogan pick so large you can’t lift it above your waist.
Really?
If the Aborigines really had ‘stone ploughs’ to till and cultivate their crops, why weren’t hundreds found, complete with their wooden handles?
